Benedict Friedlaender

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Friedlaender around 1900
Friedlaender around 1908
Grave site, Thuner Platz 2–4, in Berlin-Lichterfelde

Benedict Friedlaender (born July 18, 1866 in Berlin ; † June 21, 1908 in Schöneberg ; first name also Benedikt ) was a German zoologist and sexologist .

Life

Friedlaender was the son of Carl Friedlaender (1817–1876), professor of economics in Berlin; his grandfather was the Berlin doctor and lecturer Nathan Friedlaender (1776–1830). The volcanologist Immanuel Friedlaender (1871–1948) was one of his siblings .

He studied mathematics, physics, botany and physiology and received his doctorate in 1888 with a zoological topic. As a financially strong patron, he supported the anarchist magazine Kampf and published in Der Sozialist , he also signed substantial fund shares in Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (WhK), the purpose of which was to abolish the criminality of homosexuality . Friedlaender was a member, but broke with the WhK in 1906 and founded the secession of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (later the Union for Male Culture ). This split only survived Friedlaender's death for a short time.

Friedlaender's book The Renaissance of Eros Uranios had a significant influence on the men's theses of Hans Blüher , with whom he was personally known.

Friedlaender committed on 20 June 1908 in Schöneberg suicide and was in the woods part of the Park Cemetery Lichterfelde buried in Berlin on Heather Lane 35th His funeral speech was given by Bruno Wille , who was buried 20 years later at the side of his friend. The Art Nouveau tomb is a design by Ernst Müller-Braunschweig .

The book with his brother Immanuel Absolute or Relative Movement is based on Mach's principle and plays a role in the prehistory of the Lense-Thirring Effect .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the central nervous system of Lumbricus. Dissertation , 1888.
  • Liberal socialism in contrast to the servitude of the Marxists. With special consideration of the works and fate of Eugen Dühring. Free publishing house, Berlin 1892.
  • Together with Immanuel Friedlaender: Absolute or relative movement? Leonhard Simion, Berlin 1896.
  • Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. H. Paetel, Berlin 1896.
  • Samoa. George Westermann, Braunschweig 1899.
  • The four main directions of the modern social movement: Marxist social democracy, anarchism, Eugen Dühring's socialitarian system and Henry George's neophysiocracy, presented critically and comparatively. Calvary, Berlin 1901.
  • Marxism and anarchism. Calvary, Berlin 1901.
  • The renaissance of Eros Uranios. Physiological friendship, a normal basic human instinct and a question of male sociability. In the light of natural science, natural law, cultural history and moral criticism. Renaissance publishing house (Otto Lehmann), Berlin-Schmargendorf 1904.
  • Draft for a physiological stimulus analysis of erotic attraction on the basis of predominantly homosexual material. Spohr, Leipzig 1905.
  • Male and female culture. A causal historical consideration. Deutscher Kampf Verlag, Leipzig 1906.
  • The love of Plato in the light of modern biology. Collected smaller writings. With a preface and a picture of the author. Bernhard Zack, Berlin 1909.

Web links

Wikisource: Benedict Friedlaender  - Sources and full texts

literature

Marita Keilson-Lauritz : Benedict Friedlaender and the beginnings of sexology. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, Volume 18, 2005, pp. 311–331.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As stated in contemporary biographical handbooks. Later reference works also state July 8th as the date of birth.
  2. ↑ Volkmar Sigusch & Günter Grau (eds.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, p. 200
  3. ^ Herbert Pfister, On the history of the so-called Lense-Thirring effect, General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 39, 2007, pp. 1735-1748
personal data
SURNAME Friedlaender, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlaender, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1908
Place of death Schöneberg